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otp, w Xbox Network will implement mass content deletion taking effect from January 9th

Jeez. 90 days is a pretty short period of time.

thingsiplay,
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I expected a more sensible default, such as 365 days. It would also be helpful to have a 'favorite' option to prevent deletion. This is a major letdown.

Timetorelax,

Unfortunately, things never stay the same.

Timetorelax,

They’ve probably realised it was taking up so much server space. It’s a con because you have to pay monthly for their services.

KoboldCoterie, w MSI Gaming Teases Its Own Steam Deck Competitor
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In my opinion, the fact that so many of these competing devices run windows just ruins them out of the gate. The fact that you can cleanly suspend and resume games on the Deck is its best feature by a mile, and I’ve yet to see any windows-based device manage to even come close to doing that reliably.

EvilMonkeySlayer,

Yep, I think they need to get SteamOS on these if they want to compete. Windows is simply not good for devices like this, at all.

HubertManne,
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yeah if it runs windows then to me its not a steamdeck competitor.

ganoo, w Epic Games has dropped another Free Game on its store
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They’re desperate

Jaysyn, w Switch 2 predicted to match Steam Deck price, $100 more than OG Switch
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I love the Switch, but it's nowhere near as useful as a Steam Deck for the same price & has only a tiny fraction of the Steam Deck's current game library.

Averagegoob,
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@Jaysyn @mike591 I would agree in general but I still do find myself longing for the more compact/lighter frame of the switch sometimes

conciselyverbose,

I definitely don't.

Joycons are the worst controller anyone has ever made, and making it remotely usable isn't any smaller.

kurcatovium,

The price of the library is nearly the same, though… sad

KyoStarr,
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Not sure what you mean. I get deals all the time using sites like gg.deals to cross reference multiple store fronts for PC deals for my Steam Deck, paying a fraction of what they would have cost on Switch.

conciselyverbose,

He was memeing that buying the 5% of the games the Switch has would cost just as much as buying everything on Steam.

kurcatovium,

Exactly this. Steam has one huge benefit for players: it made gaming pretty cheap. If you don’t need every game day 1 and you are patient, you can play dirt cheap. And I mean dirt cheap.

This is not entirely true for Nintendo, which tends to hold prices way higher. At least from the quick glance I made couple years ago when I was thinking about Switch.

conciselyverbose,

I don't think Skyrim has been below $30 lol

KyoStarr,
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Ah on a second read I see that now haha.

all-knight-party,
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It does still have an advantage of being plug and play compared to the Steam Deck's "it's like a portable console except you're still PC gaming so I hope you like caveats, changing settings, and troubleshooting"

KyoStarr,
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I very rarely have to troubleshoot games. Maybe toggle a few quality settings to get it to run to my liking but that's about it.

all-knight-party,
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It really depends on the game. I think an important thing to note is that if you're going to mention the incredible library of a PC platform like the Steam Deck that a lot of these older than five years or so PC games will absolutely require more particular settings and fiddling to get them to run perfectly compared to consoles that guarantee you a game running with comfortable controls with no hassle for anything in their library.

Performance notwithstanding, but even then striking the balance between performance and image quality with graphics options is sometimes more of the experiential decision making than a casual console gamer might want to be concerned with. I think you absolutely get used to and probably don't notice the lower level of these things if you've been on PC for a while, but it is a big part of whether I choose to play switch or PC.

And of course, if your only concern is playing modern releases on PC, then this won't matter as much, but it is a factor.

TwilightVulpine, w Someone needs to do a fantasy Hitman game.

Dishonored was a bit like that

all-knight-party,
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Dishonored, but with larger levels, more tools, not just magic powers, thus more opportunities for accidental kills. Set pathways and activities that the targets use. Some way for possession to transform into your enemies to engage with social stealth and hide in plain sight, or invisibility. I think OP's idea of potions has a lot of potential there.

BruceTwarzen, w Bethesda plans to update Starfield "roughly every six weeks starting in February"

The 6 people playing will be pumped

Whiskeyomega, w Teenage Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker given an indefinite sentence in a secure hospital due to his 'intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible'
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As always with the Crown Prosecution service in the UK they love to bully and make an example of Autistic people. Only added by corporation running the court system, The CPS' Prosecution barristers are known to enjoy a life of luxury and gifts from them but you cant touch any of it.

sbv, w Teenage Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker given an indefinite sentence in a secure hospital due to his 'intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible'

Following an assessment by a psychiatrist, however, the judge in the case determined that Kurtaj was unfit to stand trial, and so the jury was asked only to determine if he had actually committed the hacks, but not whether it was done with criminal intent.

I’m curious what “unfit” means here.

luthis, w The Steam Winter Sale 2023 is now live
ampersandrew,
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luthis,

Thanks, but I’ll pass on Vagante. The last time I tried a rogue-like (Hades) it took over my life. I dread the day Hades 2 is released…

ampersandrew,
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The funny thing is, for all the acclaim Hades got, I felt it was pretty weak as a roguelike. It was just the combat system, with no room to get creative with it, like lots of other roguelikes would allow for.

Kaldo,
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Midnitte,
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Really been enjoying Against the Storm - though I play mostly under 1x speed so I spend so long per level lol - slowly adjusting to speeding up...

luthis, w Steam now allows you to hide your shame by marking games as private

Finally. Starforge has been an embarrassment for too long.

ampersandrew, w How Baldur's Gate 3 Becomes Game of the Year?
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This video is unwatchable AI-generated garbage, and it's foreshadowed from the grammar in the title. How are people upvoting this? "Larian released BALL DOORS....GATE 3."

EvaUnit02,
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I laughed aloud when I heard, "Bahldoors...Gate III officially!"

luna, w Valve is banning Dota 2 accounts in the Christmasiest way possible
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Valve has wrapped the banhammer in tinsel, adding a lovely Christmassy flavour to their anti-smurfing actions. Players who have been banned for smurfing are finding a Highly Toxic Lump of Coal in their accounts, a ‘Seasonal Reward’.

Kit, w Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

It would take another decade of development to make this game feel anything less than empty.

ampersandrew, w Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 is a whopper of an update with an epilogue, two new modes, and more
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I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough.

JelloBrains,
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How's your new playthrough going?

ampersandrew,
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I'm temporarily staving it off by playing two other RPGs.

TwilightVulpine, w Cult of the Lamb pledges to embrace its smutty community with a suitably sultry new update

It's funny that in a game about demonic cults and blood sacrifices this is somehow considered unusually controversial.

Pons_Aelius,

Is it really that surprising?

20 years ago The Hot coffee scandal was massive.

Allowing fully clothed humping in a game where you could beat and rob sex workers (and just kill random people) was seen as a massive scandal.

kayjay,

In the US, extreme violence has always been a lot more accepted than nudity. Which really says a lot about what kind of values the society has when completely natural human biology is shunned and anti-social destructive behavior isn’t.

TwilightVulpine,

That's true, but blasphemous content created a lot more controversy than sheer violence. I remember when D&D books were getting burned because parents thought it was satanist.

Cult of the Lamb is explicitly demonic and yet it's still the possible addition of sex that is creating all this hubbub. Personally I think it's going to be about as explicit as The Sims at most, getting in a sleeping bag and them some shaking and effects.

Thjoth,

Cult of the Lamb was and still is massively controversial among evangelicals and other extremely religious/Christian people since it's so blasphemous. The falling number of Christians in the US combined with the echo chamber effect on the Internet just (ironically) means all the religious rage doesn't leak out and permeate all of society like it used to.

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